Engineered human cells that can give rise to every cell type have been induced to generate structures that resemble an embryonic kidney. This advance charts a course towards growing transplantable kidneys in culture. See Letter p.564
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Davies, J. Kidney tissue grown from induced stem cells. Nature 526, 512–513 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15639
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